Rusalka
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 9, 2009
Closed Mar 21, 2009
Opened Mar 9, 2009
Closed Mar 21, 2009
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Running Time:
3hr. 35min.
3hr. 35min.
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http://www.metopera.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Renée Fleming and Stephanie Blythe star in Dvorák's opera. Maestro Jirí Belohlávek conducts.
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Ads these days for The Little Mermaid often plug what young girls can take away as they exit the theater: memories. Memories are more geared to adults in the Metropolitan Opera's 1993 production of Anton Dvorak's Rusalka -- which is pretty much The Little Mermaid with an unhappy ending. And the most indelible memory of the production, which has returned to the repertoire for a brief run, is Renee Fleming singing one of her most crowd-pleasing arias, "Song to the Moon," (or as the Czech has it, "Mesicku na nebi Hlubokem.")
Delivering it from the top of a leafless tree in a wooded glade that set designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen might have lifted from an Arthur Rackham illustration, Flemin[...]